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In the gulf last week, Iraqi planes continued to threaten shipping. One missile caused only slight damage to a Liberian-registered supertanker, the St. Tobias. But another of the weapons was believed to have been responsible for destroying a small, German-operated supply ship off Iran's Kharg Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armaments: Hard Sell | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

And at Blodgett Peel, everybody's happy. Diving Coach John Walker has a strong contingent of woman divers returning, and junior Dan Watson is fresh from a third place finish at the U.S. Olympic trials to spice up a men's squad that also gains freshman Tomas Gilmore, of Costa...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: A Look at the Class of '88 | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

At low tide in the rough waters of the North Sea, it looked like a dead whale floating on its belly. But the Mont Louis, a 4,210-ton French container ship that sank on Aug. 25 after colliding with a German passenger ferry eleven miles from the Belgian coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Shipwreck Sends a Warning | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

To forestall a disaster, the divers began carving a 10 ft. by 17 ft. hole in the hull. A giant floating crane operated by Smit Tak International, a Rotterdam company that often retrieves sunken ships from places like the war-torn Persian Gulf, will be towed out to sea on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Shipwreck Sends a Warning | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

"It would have cost about a quarter-million dollars," Naber explained. "You can buy an awful lot of scuba divers for that amount of money."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Here's One Man's Meet | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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